Ecuador 1946 10 centavos

from the Mountain Groan Collection

After a period of striking reales, pesos and escudos which must be regarded as a failure, Ecuador ceased minting coins in 1862. In 1884, the government tried again, this time with coinage produced on contract by the Heaton mint in Birmingham, England. A new currency conforming to the Latin Monetary Union was introduced, the sucre, with its division the centavo. By 1946 no silver remained in the coinage. This type was accompanied by a five centavos (see KM 75b), twenty centavos and one sucre (see KM 78.2).

Recorded mintage: 40,000,000.

Specification: copper-nickel.

Catalog reference: KM 76b.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

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• 1928 10 centavos
• 1946 5 centavos
• 1946 20 centavos
• 1946 sucre
• Coins and currency dated 1946
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